Improvement in air-compressors



W. H. FAUNT'LERUY.

Air-Compressors.

' PartemedAprnzsJeM.

No.150,3l2.

UNITED STATES PATENT CEEICE.,

WILLIAM ELFAUNTLEROY, OF EUREKA, NEVADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN AIR-COMPRESSORS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,312, dated April 28,11574; application led Cctober 15, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. FAUNTLE- ROY, of Eureka, Lander county,State of Nevada, have invented Improvements in Generating andTransmittin g Heat and Force and do hereby declare the followingdescription and accompanying drawings are sufficient to enable anyperson skilled in the art or science t0 which it most nearly appertainsto make and use my said invention without further invention orexperiment.

My invention relates to an improved apparatus for multiplying,accumulating, and storing power, to be used for the various purposes forwhich other and more costly power is at present applied. My improvementcontemplates the employment of a hydrostatic engine, which may beoperated by any suitable power for the purpose of compressing air, sothat the air may be transmitted by proper means to any point or pointswhere it can be used for motive purposes.

In order to more fully illustrate and explain my invention, reference ishad to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specincation, inwhich- Figures 1 and 3 represent a beam or other suitable engine movedby water, steam, compressed air, or other force. In the present instanceit is represented as being propelled by water.

A C M is avessel containing water or other fluid, the surface area ofthe cylinders C and A being, for the purpose of illustration, as l to10s l) is a water-wheel. E is a walkingbeam.- B is an air-reservoir. Fis a pistonrod, carrying head in the cylinder C. G is the crank which isattached to the end of thewheelshaft, and which is connected with thewalkingbeam bythe connecting-rod H. K K are guiderods connecting withthe diaphragm L and attached to a collar around thereservoir B. Theserods play on two guides on the sides of B, and are connected to the beamE by the rod O. L is a diaphragm carrying two piston-heads, n, the lowerone, i, on the surface of the water, and the upper and smallest one, n,playing in the cylinder Z, which is of the same surface area as cylinderC. Z has air-pipes S S leading through the reservoir B, or has a valvein the cylinder-head opening upward and receiving air from thediaphragmspace, which will be provided. with air-valves opening inward.V is a valve opening upward into B. N N is the gallows orsupporting-frame, and P is a pipe for the transmission of force whenneeded, now closed.

Fig. 3 is'a sectional elevation of Fig. l.

A pump, X, or reservoir will be'required to supply water, as it willlose by evaporation. Temperature and pressure gages and safetyvalves arealso provided. The metal is calculated to withstand, a pressure farwithin the bounds of safety. Thus force and its equivalent in heat maybe transmitted under pressure to distant localities.

Fig. 2 is an upright cylinder, which is in 'tended to take the place ofthe cylinder A in Fig. 1 when it isdesired to produce heat by thecompression of air.

There is no difference in the construction of the machine, except thatbelow the valve V there is a very small and long aperture, or a numberof them, through a solid block of iron bushed with platina or othermetal, so that when the upstroke is made by the diaphragm L the air orgas in Z will be compressed through the aperture into B with multipliedforce, and in consequence of the violent compression and friction theair or gas will be expanded, and a great degree of force and heat willbe pro duced in the reservoir B, sufcient to warm houses, cook food,reduce ores, disintegrate substances, prepare anhydrous limes, andgenerally for all purposes of science, art manufacture, and domestic usefor which heat is now or hereafter may be used, it being the mechanicalequivalent of force.

This machine will produce highly-expanded gas of any kind, before orafter transmission, by admitting the gas into the cylinder Z through thetubes connected therewith, and forcing it into the reservoir B throughthe aperture, from whence it will pass through the pipe P to distantlocalities.

Pressure-gages will show the pressure. Ten1- perature and pressure beingproportional, temperature will show the pressure. These gages afford themeans of utilizing the hours of night, as any given pressure may be sentin any given direction. Reservoirs of proportional area give aproportional amountof force, and the amount used may be measured by ameter. vWater and all iiuids may be transmitted in the same man ner bymeans of pipes and reservoirs, provided that in no instance must thepoint of desired transmission be at a greater height than the originalreservoir. I provide that engines and condcnsers being now in use may beemployed. The pipes and reservoirs are snppliedwith pressure andtemperature gages, safety-valves, connections, and stop cocks Whereneeded. The metal composing the pipes and reservoirs is calculated towithstand a pressure i'ar within. the bounds of safety.

I do not claim the hydrostatic principle involved in this invention. Iclaim that, by the use of force thus supplied to places more or lessremote, railroad-cars, Vehicles, factories, and vessels plying upon thenavigable Waters can be propelled, and that heat can be supplied for thearts and sciences, and every conceivable domestic use where force, heat,and the gases are now or hereafter may be used.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

The cylinder A and reservoir B separated by a partition in which is asmall cylinder, Z, with which air-ports s s communicate, in combinationwith the diaphragm L, With its two pistons, i u, and theoperating-piston F and connecting-pipes C M, all combined and arrangedsubstantially as and for the purpose above described.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal.

VILLIAM II. FAUNTLEROY. [Ls] Vitnesses JoHN L. BOONE, i (1M. RICHARDSON.

